AB Achieves Perfect Score in 2017 Corporate Equality Index

NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2016

The 2017 CEI rated a total of 1,043 businesses in the report, which evaluates LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBT community. AB's efforts in satisfying all of the CEI's criteria results in a 100 percent score and the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality.

"We are honored to have received for the second year in a row a perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index," said Peter Kraus, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at AB.  "We remain deeply committed to building an inclusive work environment that reflects the diversity of our clients and communities and to win this award again only emboldens us to make further progress."

For more information on the 2017 Corporate Equality Index, or to download a free copy of the report, visit www.hrc.org/cei.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and queer people. HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.

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